9. Robert Frost, letter to Mrs. Whittall, April 12, 1961. This letter is from a specially bound volume of letters of tribute
to Mrs. Whittall presented to her on May 3, 1961, by Librarian of Congress L. Quincy Mumford in celebration of the tenth anniversary
of the Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. Library of Congress Archives, Manuscript Division.[back]
10. For a history of the Arsis Press by its founder, see Clara Lyle Boone, “Women Composers' Upbeat: Arsis Press,” in The Musical Woman: An International Perspective, vol. 1, 1983, ed. Judith Lang Zaimont, Catherine Overhauser, and Jane Gottlieb (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984), 98-104.[back]
11. Adrienne Fried Block discusses Arthur P. Schmidt's support of women composers in “Arthur P. Schmidt, Music Publisher and
Champion of American Women Composers,” in The Musical Woman: An International Perspective, vol. 2, 1984-1985, ed. Judith Lang Zaimont, Catherine Overhauser, and Jane Gottlieb (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1987), 145-76.[back]